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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of:
Records, 1981-89
Folder Title: Fortieth Anniversary of the Warsaw
Uprising
Box: Box 75(1984)
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PRESIDENT THE OF STATES. THE UNITED
Fortieth Anniversary of the
Warsaw Uprising
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Forty years ago, one of the most heroic battles of World War II, the Warsaw
Uprising, occurred. Polish resistance to aggression throughout World War II
had been courageous and uncompromising. As the Nazi forces retreated
before advancing Soviet armies, the Polish Home Army that led the resistance
seized its chance to throw off the Nazi yoke. For sixty-three days, the people
of Warsaw fought against insurmountable odds, endured unimaginable suffer-
ing, and made countless sacrifices to regain their independence. Nevertheless,
the lightly-armed resistance fighters were overwhelmed by the full weight of
Hitler's war machine. The Nazis mercilessly crushed the uprising while Soviet
forces passively looked on from across the Vistula River. Warsaw lay in
rubble. Two hundred-fifty thousand Poles were killed, wounded, or missing.
Yet the victims of the Warsaw Uprising did not die in vain.
The example of those who fought for freedom during the Warsaw Uprising is a
stirring chapter in history, as vivid today as it was then. The ongoing struggle
of the faithful, the shipyard workers of Gdansk, the miners of Silesia, and
farmers throughout the countryside is but a continuation of the proud history
of the Polish quest for freedom.
It is right that we pay tribute to those who sacrificed all for independence and
freedom. All of us who share their passion for freedom owe the heroic people
of Warsaw and all of the valiant people of Poland a profound debt.
The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 272, has resolved that the United
States should join in recognizing the Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim August 1, 1984, as the Fortieth Anniversary of
the Warsaw Uprising.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of
August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-four, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and ninth.
Ronald Reagan